epiphany

thank you, for this inspiration and this encouragement to keep going and keep fighting for what i love.

"i love writing but hate starting. the page is awfully white and it says, 'you may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. i'm not your agent and i'm not your mommy, i'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?' and i really, really don't."
-aaron sorkin

"nobody tells this to people who are beginners. i wish someone had told me. all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. but there is this gap. for the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. it's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. but your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. and your taste is why your work disappoints you. a lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. most people i know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. we know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. we all go through this. and if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. it's only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. and i took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone i've ever met. it's gonna take a while. it's normal to take awhile. you just gotta fight your way through."
-ira glass

while the expanse is still vast, i'm feeling a little less small, even if it's only on the inside.